The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. box set would be my most eagerly-awaited DVDs.
I’d also love for them to hurry up and collect all the Justice League Unlimited episodes so far.
The Frisco Kid - a hysterical (if slightly inaccurate) movie set in the 1880s about a rabbi (Gene Wilder) who is sent to a new Jewish community in San Fransisco from Europe. Of course, he has to cross the North American Continent first. Along the way he teams up with a cowboy (Harrison Ford). Hilarity ensues.
Batman (1966 TV series)
The Odd Couple (TV series)
Zev Steinhardt
Only for the PAL lovin’ Europeans.
It’s Dave Chappelle working for Mel Brooks. You’d think they’d be all over it.
If you decide to get one, be sure it has a PAL-NTSC converter built in.
I bought one about 4 years ago and it’s been worth every penny. It can play R2 & R4 DVDs.
Max Headroom.
What?
Quoted for truth. And the Pinky and the Brain spinoff, plus the complete Freakazoid would be nice.
As for movies, I’m still waiting on At Play in the Fields of the Lord.
Unfortunately I don’t have Nick Toons. The local cable provider doesn’t carry it, and I’m not going to get satellite, or digital or whatever would be necessary. Spielberg (or whoever) should just put out the DVD already!
Last I heard, Blue Underground had gotten the rights to The Quiet Earth and was planning a release.
My top three picks:
Voyager
The Reflecting Skin
Before the Rain
I would like The Duchess of Duke Street released in America. Why should I have to buy new/different hardware just because it was made over there?
Oh, all right. I’ll just buy the British DVD.
Also, EastEnders would be nice. But that would be like having a complete DVD set of All My Children. I guess I won’t hold my breath.
How about Leadbelly? It’s directed by Gordon Parks. Leonard Maltin and Roger Ebert both gave the movie 3 1/2 stars. It’s one of the few feature films about a blues/folk musician. And it’s seemingly impossible to find a copy of it on VHS.
I’m waiting for Region 1 DVDs of:
Tih Minh (1918), La Roue (1923), The Wedding March (1928), Pandora’s Box (1929), Mädchen in Uniform (1931), Zero for Conduct (1933), The Story of a Cheat (1936), Une partie de campagne (1936), Angel (1937), Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Hôtel du Nord (1938), J’accuse! (1938), Olympia (1938), Tobacco Road (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), A Canterbury Tale (1944), Hue and Cry (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Jour de fête (1949), Not Wanted (1949), The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), Los Olvidados (1950), La Ronde (1950), Wagon Master (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), Miracle in Milan (1951), The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), Le Plaisir (1952), The Life of Oharu (1952), El (1953), A Geisha (1953), Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), The Earrings of Madame de… (1953), Monika (1953), Voyage in Italy (1953), Anatahan (1954), Human Desire (1954), Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Artists and Models (1955), The Naked Dawn (1955), Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955), There’s Always Tomorrow (1956), While the City Sleeps (1956), Pyaasa (1957), Journey to the Lost City (1959), General della Rovere (1959), The Nun’s Story (1959), Pickpocket (1959), When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), El Cid (1961), Whistle Down the Wind (1961), Heaven and Earth Magic (1962), My Name Is Ivan (1962), Ride the High Country (1962), America, America (1963), The Organizer (1963), Brainstorm (1965), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), The Hill (1965), The War Game (1965), Cul-de-Sac (1966), Masculin, féminin (1966).
Are you sure this one isn’t out? I’ve seen most of Russ Meyer’s breast-obsessed ouevre out on DVD, with the read box and the “Bosomania” logo
(although I don’t recall this one)
Faster, Pussycat! is available only on NTSC VHS.
Well, kinda like that, but not nearly as round.
Sorry- I assumed that if there wasn’t a DVD link in imdb they weren’t in DVD (especially since imdb is owned by Amazon).
Dave Allen At Large. I have very fond memories of it playing on PBS when I was a kid, and suspect I’d love it even more now, as a semi-adult.
Not a movie, but V.I.P. was a TV show that would do well on DVD. Someone tell me when it comes out.
I want to see Threads (BBC nuclear war movie), the Marlon Brando version of Julius Caesar, Scavengar Hunt, as well as the tv series Parker Lewis Can’t Lose
There is a “Best Of” compilation for Dave Allen, but, yeah, we need the whole program run.
I’d like to revisit “The Gong Show” in all its tawdry 70’s glory. It’ll never happen, though.
The DVD version I have, there’s as much of the Eurythm!cs as the VHS I have, very little. The director never wanted to use the Eurythm!cs to begin with, but was forced to by the studio. The film to DVD transfer is what they botched. Whoever did it, didn’t know that the film was supposed to look washed out, so they “corrected” it.
Supposedly there’s a six hour version of Until the End of the World out there.
I’d like a decent version of PBS’s The Lathe of Heaven to be released on DVD. The copy that’s out there now supposedly had to be heavily reworked from a pisspoor copy. There is a decent copy of the film out there on 1-inch master, owned by the local PBS station in town, and while I told PBS about it, they’ve yet to jump on it.
I’ll also agree that we need the complete Dave Allen at Large on DVD. Maybe now that he’s gone, they’ll do it.